Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1913 — PAID HIM TO BE TRUTHFUL [ARTICLE]

PAID HIM TO BE TRUTHFUL

S i •Youngster Also Proved Hia Ability to i Get Himself Out of a Tight Station. County Judge Albert H. F. Seeger n r pti>f. flountv. N. Y., la a lawyer who doesn’t believe In wasting time y< u ir g oil ce hours, and his office force devotes the daylight of six days a week to work. some yearn ago the judge wont .»•*» *'«n.oon u< M>

clerks Invited all the young law students of Newburg to spend the after* noon at their office. The judge returned unexpectedly for some additional papers he wished to use, and the air was filled with tobacco smoke and Idleness when he entered. “To what unexpected good fortune do I owe the visit of so irlany young people?”, inquired the Judge, with a smile at the array of young men whose muddy shoes were resting on the top of his polished mahogany

Everyone was at a loss for a reply except the judge’s youngest student Offering the judge his own chair and bowing low he replied with gravity: “To yous absence, sir.” The boy was put on salary the fol lowing week for truthfulness.